Description

Quickly add a powerful drop down conversion bar to your site and start converting visitors. Grab your visitor’s attention with an attractive opt-in bar displayed either at the top or bottom of your site, and direct them to product page, signup page, or newsletter subscribe page.

QuickieBar is completely responsive and designed to look great on mobile, tablet, and desktop devices. Customize options of your bar to adhere to your brand standards, or pop out from the page. Choose from a multitude of colors (preset or custom), bar styles, and button styles.

QuickieBar comes with over 500 icons that you can use anywhere in your bar (provided by FontAwesome).

Instant previewing of your bar while you create it means that you can see your changes in real time. You can also click a button to preview the bar directly on your site.

Advanced conversion reporting allows you to dive into metrics on your bars, and see how successful they are over time. Each bar you create is tracked separately, so you can test different messages and bar colors to optimize conversion.

Conversion bars like the ones you can make with QuickieBar are starting to appear all over the web to help site owners drive traffic to conversion pages. QuickieBar enables you to outfit your site with a similar (and in many cases, more sophisticated and attractive) bar in seconds.

Full Feature List

QuickieBar features that enable you to create & convert as quickly & effortlessly as possible:

One-Minute Install: Install and launch your first bar in under 60 seconds
Beautiful Color Schemes: Choose from ten attractive color schemes, or create your own!
Mobile Friendly: Responsive from the ground up so your bars look great on your phone and browser
Awesome Icon Selection: Add over 500 distinctive icons to your calls to action
Top or Bottom Placement: Easily toggle whether users see the bar at the top or bottom of your site
Conversion Reports: Ongoing reporting to help you uncover customer trends and behavior
Conditional Triggering: Choose to show your bar everywhere or on specific pages, posts, or just your homepage
Advanced Customization: Customize just about anything about the way your bar looks and behaves.
Fixed Header Compatibility: QuickieBar is even compatible with most (not all) fixed header themes: simply enable fixed header compatibility mode.

Bar Options List

Customize any of the following options for your bars:

Bar Style
Conversion Button Style
Opens in New Tab
Top or Bottom Placement
Text & Button Alignment
Sticks to Top of Page
Animation
Close Button Visibility
Bar Text
Button Text
Bar Background Color
Button Background Color

Browser Compatibility List

While ideally QuickieBar would work perfectly in every browser, outdated browsers can cause bars to look unattractive or display inconsistently across different devices. As such, I have opted to not display any bar to users using older browsers, instead of showing them one of lower quality.

QuickieBar should display perfectly in the following browsers. Users viewing your site on browsers not on this list will simply not be shown your conversion bar (they will also not be tracked for Views or Conversions).

Google Chrome 4+
Firefox 3.5+
Safari 3.1+
Internet Explorer 10+

If you notice any inconsistencies in the way your bars display to visitors using these browsers, please let me know here and I will do what I can to fix the issue.

Translations

English – default

Please contact me if you wish to help with translation!

Feedback

I always appreciate any feedback or ideas you might have for the plugin. Please open a ticket here and let me know what’s on your mind!

Screenshots

QuickieBar on an example website
QuickieBar bar creation page (in admin menu) with live preview
Viewing all bars - you can see quick stats about your bars and pause / resume bars that are running
The only required fields for creating a new bar: Bar Text, Button Text, and Button Destination
Select any preset color options or specify your own
Viewing conversion history by Week, Month, or All-Time
All additional options that can be set on a bar by bar basis
Plugin-wide options such as enabling attribution (disabled by default) and setting bar visibility
Custom icon chooser to select or search through 500+ icons (provided by FontAwesome)

Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and create your first bar.

Upload all files in quickiebar.zip to /wp-content/plugins/quickiebar directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Click on the QuickieBar menu item on the Admin Menu (it will show up between the Comments and Appearance sections)
If you want to receive product updates, Enter your email and click Get Product Updates. If not, just click Skip this step.
Click Create a new bar and fill out the options to create your first bar (all Basic Settings are required)!

FAQ

My bar is not showing up in the correct place. What should I do?

or…

QuickieBar is messing up my header. What should I do?

Due to the nature of displaying a bar at a fixed position at the top of a site, some page layouts will inherently not “play nice” with a fixed bar at the top of the page. Either they themselves used fixed positioning to place components on the page (such as a sidebar or header), or they use javascript to lay out certain items vertically on the page. While I have done everything possible to make this plugin as compatible with as many themes as possible, it is impossible to work perfectly with every theme (Twenty Fourteen is a great example, since it uses a fixed positioned header).

The first thing you’ll want to try is enabling “Fixed Header Compatibility Mode” from the Settings page. This will attempt to adjust the position of your fixed header when QuickieBar bars are displayed.

You can try using the “Bottom” placement for your bar or disabling the “Sticky” option, as bars that are configured to stick to the top of the page are usually the ones causing the layout issues.

If none of these options fix the layout problems, you should open a ticket here and make sure to describe the issue as well as include the name of the theme that your site uses.

X Feature is not working. What should I do?

Open a ticket here. Describe what isn’t working, what should be happening, and provide the name of the theme you are using.

How do the cookies work behind the scenes?

When a new visitor accesses your site, QuickieBar saves a cookie that persists a non-personally-identifiable ID for that visitor across all page views. If a bar is shown, that ID is logged as a “view” for whatever bar was shown. If that same user clicks on the bar, then that ID is logged as a “conversion” for whatever bar was shown.

If a visitor closes the bar, they will not be shown that bar again (for up to 7 days). All cookies persist for 7 days, so if that same person comes back after 7 days, they will be treated as a new visitor and be shown the bar and have views and conversions logged.

When I deactivate or uninstall the plugin, is all my data deleted?

No. If you wish to delete all data when uninstalling the plugin, click “Delete all plugin settings & data” at the bottom of the QuickieBar Settings page. This will deactivate the plugin and erase all settings & data associated with the plugin. You can then “Delete” the plugin files just like any other plugin.

What information (if any) is sent to third-party sites (such as quickiebar.com)?

By default, no information is sent to quickiebar.com. You can opt in to receive infrequent product updates, in which case only your email address and website URL are saved to our mailchimp newsletter list.

Reviews

tuslibros December 6, 2019

I hardly even review any plugin but this was flat out a scam. The Admin panel would redirect you to a sales page called Namebright.com Don't even waist your time installing this.

sjumbam15 August 22, 2017

This is the best notification bar plugin i have used it is simple and great thanks to who ever made it

Cheeser2K October 15, 2016

I literally tried every free bar there was, and the paid ones that had the basic features I wanted are too expensive. This one is awesome! Many thanks for saving my sanity!!

noeski76 September 30, 2016

Free version Works Great, and is very usable. Would be great if we could add a shortcode in the Destination URL to activate a Pop Up rather than open new page... Is this possible??? Will upgrade to PRO features soon..

Guru Kapil September 3, 2016

There is one issue, on mobile there is click to hide button but no click to appear, other than that I absolutely loved it. Really easy to setup and works perfectly fine.

billinflames September 3, 2016

Congratz guys! Smooth pllugin that works fine!

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Contributors & Developers

“QuickieBar” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

philbaylog

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Changelog

1.8.4 | Sep 20, 2016

Fix: Fixed permissions error of readfile() function caused by a small amount of hosting providers
Fix: Fixed issue with multiple icons in bar text not always being replaced correctly on mobile devices

1.8.3 | Jul 26, 2016

Fix: Fixed sql error in prior commit

1.8.2 | Jul 26, 2016

Fix: Fixed issue w/ duplicated db records being created in some WP instances on db update
Fix: Removed deprecated get_currentuserinfo call

1.8.1 | Jan 15, 2016

Fix: Links to “call”, “sms”, and “skype” prefixes can now be added as QuickieBar actions

1.8.0 | Sep 15, 2015

Feature: Visibility for custom post types can now be togged on or off
Fix: Fixed bug which caused QuickieBar welcome message to be displayed by mistake

1.7.2 | Aug 26, 2015

Tweak: Added background styling to “wrap” class in QuickieBar to prevent some theme styles from affecting bar styles

1.7.1 | Aug 3, 2015

Fix: Increased character limits of bar text, button text, and destination fields to improve support for html in bars and non-english characters

1.7.0 | July 16, 2015

Feature: Bars can now be configured to open click actions in the current tab, in addition to the default action (opening in new tab)

1.6.6 | July 15, 2015

Tweak: Added support for a fixed header class (.qb-fixed-header) which allows users to specify which page element should be adjusted in fixed header compatibility mode

1.6.5 | June 30, 2015

Tweak: Added support for mailto, tel, on page, and relative links for bar destination

1.6.4 | June 28, 2015

Tweak: Removed attribution html element when not enabled (previously was just hidden)

1.6.3 | June 10, 2015

Fix: Updated call to get pages on settings page to improve theme/plugin compatibility
Tweak: Added better notes about fixed compatibility setting

1.6.2 | May 29, 2015

Fix: Updated links for “Get Started With..” and “Settings” plugin links to detect location of settings page

1.6.1 | May 20, 2015

Fix: Live Preview will now correctly preview bars
Fix: Updated admin menu icon size

1.6.0 | May 19, 2015

Feature: Bars can now be toggled to show on archive pages using custom visibility settings
Feature: Getting Started Videos are now accessible from the plugin’s new Help page
Feature: Z-Index can now be set from the settings page to improve theme compatibility

1.5.0 | May 11, 2015

Feature: Added support for editing visibility by categories
Tweak: Added 10% OFF Discount for newsletter subscription
Tweak: Added “Upgrade to PRO” content to sidebar & when users try to publish two bars at once

1.4.2 | Apr 29, 2015

Tweak: Bars can now be created without a link or button text, allowing for them to act as notification messages or CTAs w/o buttons
Fix: Special characters will now save correctly in bar text and button text fields
Fix: Converted add_menu_page position parameter to string to reduce menu conflicts based on position

1.4.1 | Apr 20, 2015

Fix: Removed code that preventing new bars from being created/edited.

1.4.0 | Apr 20, 2015

Feature: Introduced a “minimized” state for bars – users can now expand dismissed bars (desktop only)
Tweak: Added “Settings” link to plugins page
Tweak: Added welcome message CTA when plugin is installed for the first time
Fix: Fixed bug preventing bar dismissals sometimes not persisting after page refresh
Fix: Fixed bug causing the bar deletion process to “hang” for some bars
Fix: Fixed UI glitch after deleting a bar

1.3.2 | Apr 15, 2015

Fix: Fixed issues with page visibility settings not applying to admin page views

1.3.1 | Apr 3, 2015

Fix: QuickieBar will now not be shown on all admin pages. You know, because you probably already know about the stuff you’re promoting…

1.3.0 | Apr 3, 2015

Feature: Skinny Bar Height is now available, for those who prefer their bars even skinnier!
Tweak: Bars will now properly displace the default WordPress admin bar (#wpadminbar) for logged in users
Tweak: Admins are no longer able to permanently dismiss the bars they create
Tweak: Destination URLS can now be on-page links (#example)
Tweak: The Most Used Fontawesome icons now show up at the top of the icon list
Fix: Bars will now show up more consistently (and in some cases, altogether) for logged in users & admins
Fix: Fixed Header Compatibility Mode now supports more fixed header themes

1.2.0 | Mar 3, 2015

Feature: You can now toggle bars to only be shown to visitors on specific devices (all devices, desktops only, or mobile & tablets only)
Tweak: Turning Debug Mode on will now make the QuickieBar public script available on all pages (makes for easier support debugging)
Tweak: Adjusted script loading logic on admin pages to improve admin page performance for multi-admin sites
Fix: The QuickieBar preview on admin pages now closes correctly after editing is finished
Fix: Knockout library now binds specific to QuickieBar settings pages (reduces likelihood of compatibility issues with other WordPress plugins using knockout bindings)
Fix: Specific custom visibility settings will no longer cause plugin errors when installed on < php 5.4

1.1.3 | Feb 26, 2015

Fix: Dismissing the bar now works correctly in desktop & mobile browsers
Fix: Fixed issue causing some bar dismissals to be counted as conversions

1.1.2 | Feb 24, 2015

Fix: Prevent default bar from showing up to some visitors (based on cookies & debugging settings) after all bars are paused

1.1.1 | Feb 20, 2015

Fix: Prevent existing bars from showing when users attempted to “Live Preview” a different bar on quickiebar.com

1.1.0 | Feb 19, 2015

Feature: Enhanced the capability of Conditional Triggering, allowing users to toggle individual pages or posts to be shown or hidden
Tweak: Made admin sidebar “sticky” and removed link to Forums for support from sidebar

1.0.1 | Feb 10, 2015

Fix: Users with old versions of fontawesome installed on their site could not select icons properly
Fix: Fixed naming issue with Roboto Slab font causing it to not load for some Users

1.0.0 | Feb 9, 2015

Initial public release of QuickieBar

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